Comfort key for Kellers

Comfort is the main objective for the Keller family when it comes to their two-story home on the south side of Stuttgart.

Tracy Keller says her home is "very traditional." The Stuttgart resident built her home two years ago with her husband, Lynn, a Stuttgart native, and two children, Bobby and Cori.

"My favorite place in my home is the side porch," Keller said. "I love to sit outside and watch the world go by."

Inside, the Roe native said usually a small piece of furniture or accessory inspires her.

"I found the rug in the living room and decorated the room around that," she said. "The dining room color was the exact color I had in the dining room in my former home and wanted to use it again.”

The Keller family sticks with a style or arrangement once it's perfected. Keller said, “I like my home to look nice, but I don't have time to spend decorating and redecorating.”

Still, the home is filled with items of sentimental value and unique features to make the house a home.

“We have several pieces of furniture that belonged to our grandparents and these have great sentimental value,” she said. “I also love the large photograph of my children in the dining room. The day we took that picture holds fonds memories for me.”

Keller said she also loves the large walk-in shower in the master bathroom.

“We designed it so that as we get older it will still be easy to access,” she said.

“I also have a marble slab on the center island in my kitch,” Keller said. “I love to bake sugar cookies and I spend a lot of time rolling dough on that marble.”

In the end, however Keller said decorating a home basically comes down to comfort.

"Do what feels comfortable to you and your family is the only advice I have."

— As printed in the May/June Real Estate Guide published by the Stuttgart Daily Leader.